Around 1pm after a morning of gardening and playing there was great excitement. We had announced to the older two boys that we were going on a late lunch picnic to the river at Droxford. Here they are pictured beside my new hamper/anniversary present. We took the pushchair, changing bag, buckets, towels, swim stuff for older boys and of course a couple of trains for the baby. We soon realised that my husband had never been to this particular spot before although I've taken the boys there on many a boiling hot day after school in summer and also of course for the tadpole water expeditions.
With the picnic hamper it was a very civilised affair in a very beautiful wild place. The usual car park by the church was full so we parked further away near the recreation ground and school then walked down past the church, turned right over the gravestone path then left and onwards to the kissing gate and little bridge over the river. We lifted our pushchair over in parts. Samuel had packed a good picnic that included 3 days of our strawberry crops from home with UHT double cream to eat them with and houmous sandwiches with extra Nutella ones for desert.
My oldest was very interested in helping me catch fish with the buckets. I saw and pointed out 2 sticklebacks but they were too fast to catch and we just caught a few small fry. Jamie, my oldest had his wild moment spotting a Beautiful Demoiselle Damselfly. Isaac, my 4 year old was much less interested in fish but completely absorbed in a small patch of mud where he could add more bucket water and mess about it.
At the start of the picnic there were a few families about throwing balls to huge dogs that were bounding around in the stream. After a while they left and it was just us and the wildlife.
Before we went home all three kids burnt off some energy at the playground. The perfect end to a randomly wild day.
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